Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
I’ve certainly heard it mentioned but seeing as the only places I can see it referenced are the Sun and the Express I may be wrong.

What Michael Gove has been quoted as saying is as follows...

‘People can go out for the standard length of run or walk they ordinarily would have done...but only once a day’...and, on the subject of allotments...

‘It would be sensible that people continue to go to their allotments but not for an excessive period of time’.

I don’t believe that either of those statements cause anything but confusion and I think that stopping/discouraging driving to places of beauty is necessary because if one does it others will follow.

The facts that Sheffield (closest City to the Peak District) currently has the fastest rising outbreaks of Covid-19 outside London and Derbyshire (home of the majority of the Peak District) has the highest number of cases in the ‘East Midlands’ may not be unrelated.
Or it may be fake news! Drawing conclusions from statistics can be very misleading.

Thats the issue though, confused and conflicting statements from the government! There is nothing in the legislation which says one can go out once a day only or for an hour at a time. And why the length of time spent on an allotment is an issue is puzzling!

Anyway I manage at least 2 1/2 hours out this afternoon, so two other people who kept their distance and all was well. Fortunately the local Police are being sensible and using persuasion unless they meet an active refusal to comply. Having said that I am unlikely to encounter the Police where I walk so not an issue.

Don't agree RA, its not necessary to stop other doing things in case others copy, its necessary to provide clear and conistent advice and apply the law as it is, not as an individual Police Officer or Force would wish it to be.